Finally, largely Muslim Indonesia is a focus of our war on terrorism, meaning the U.S. will do whatever it can to ensure that Indonesia builds a prosperous middle class.

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"By choosing to focus on something, you give it a personal meaning that makes it easier to remember, " he writes.

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In the world of scoring for companies that focus on the so-called triple bottom line, meaning people, planet and profit, B Lab has one of the most rigorous rating systems.

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Asked about plans for acquisitions, Pfizer said its focus is on "bolt-on" deals, meaning purchases of companies with complementary businesses or products, with a price tag of up to several billion dollars.

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The international conferences will focus on the on-going discussions about open access to education and culture, using and applying creative commons licenses, meaning and development of free software, and challenges for intellectual property rights.

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Yet for the last two years, the portion of upgrading BlackBerry users has significantly outweighed the converts meaning RIM essentially has little choice but to focus on maintaining its existing user base.

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For one thing, women are more motivated by the purpose or meaning of their work than men, who focus more on compensation and their job titles.

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Obama's renewed focus on climate, including his call for "market-based" solutions -- meaning reopening the idea of carbon markets or other such mechanisms, a couple of years after such ideas were considered by many to be dead -- was a return to promises made long ago.

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